Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-05-30

here and some of them preferred 70
90 into camp to stopping at the no.
tells and boarding houses. Some nre-
ferred it for the novelty of the exne-
rience and others because of the eco
nomic features of camp life.
Quite a sensation occurred when il
was reported that there would he no
liquor sold in camp because of an or
der issued by the president to revoke
the privilege. 1t seems that com
mittee of ladies, appointed for the
purpose by the W. G. T. T., called
upon the president and presented him
with protest against the sale of in
toNicating liquors on the drill grounds.
it being a government property. and
asked his interference. The ladies
said the president received them most
courteously, expressed his disapprov-
al of the license to sell liquors on the
drill ground, and gave them much
encouragement to believe it would
not be done. The ladies also
called on Col Wilson, commissioner
of public buildings and grounds, and
other gentlemen having authority.
The bar-roOm privilege of the
ground had been sold by the drill
committee for $500, but about noon
on last Friday, the man who had
bought the privilege of opening the
bar under the grand stand was mott
fed that the order granting him this
privilege was revoked, and he at
once ceased his preparations.
Later it was stated that this action
of the Drill committee was in no way
due to the president or to the efforts
of the ladies of the W. G.. L. T., that
before the ladies had waited on the
president, the Drill committee had
passed their resolution revoking the
sale of Intoxicating liquors on the
Drill ground.
Probably the real secret of the
committees action was that it receiv-
ed through the commissioner of pub
lie grounds polite intimation that it
would be very gratifying to the War
Department. to which the Drill ground
belongs if Intoxicating liquors were
excluded. The committee, already
under great obligations to the War
Department, could not afford to ig-
more a hint of that kind, and they
promptly made the order revoking
the bar privilege. So, at the refresh
ment counter under the grand stand,
only temperance drinks will be sold
this week.
The president, who has been work.
ing very hard and steadily now for
some time, has decided to take
rest. He will 90 soon, accompanied
by his wife and her mother, Colonel
and Mrs. Lamont, to Saranac Lake,
n. Y, for about ten days fishing.
Last season he delayed his trip to the
mountains until it was almost too late
for this sport. He expects to get
there before the crowd of Adrion-
dack visitors assemble, with the view
of securing a good rest. 1t is prOba-
BILE that this will be his only opportu-
nifty to be away from Washington for
any length of time. Extra session
talk is again revived, and should he
deem it necessary to call an extra ses-
sion of congress, as many men of
prominence think he will, he would
probably be deprived of later sum-
mer vacation.
An extra session is urged chiefly
by the advocates of tariff reduction,
who think that the country demands
relief from taxation and the release
of good deal of the money that is
thereby locked up in the treasury.
From a partisan standpoint, the dem
ocratic politicians would, of course,
prefer to avoid an extra session. 1t
would involve additional expense for
which the dominant party is always
held responsible.